Cameron injects some anger into a playful PMQs

Strange mood at PMQs today. Rather good-natured. Like a staff awayday with both sides joshing each other for fun. A Tory from the shires, Pauline Latham (Con, Mid-Derbyshire), stood up in her best garden-party dress and made this lament:

‘My constituents are having a very difficult time at the moment.’

Labour MPs cheered like mad. They wouldn’t have done that before the local elections.

Cameron and Miliband were in a similarly playful mood. After an enforced separation of two weeks they seemed almost glad to see one other. Ed Miliband charmingly conceded that today’s drop in unemployment was welcome. And Cameron welcomed this welcome from his opponent.

Miliband then teased Cameron for failing to talent-spot Francois Hollande three months ago, and for omitting to meet the new French President before he swept to power. Perhaps Cameron could send him a text and sign it ‘LOL’.